Simon Kitching wrote:
Paul Hopton schrieb:
Hi,
I'm quite new to jsf, but know my way around tomcat and the
servlet-api pretty well. I'm working on a relatively complicated
project with a few dependencies, but to be able to track down my
problem I have created a simple application based on the NumberGuess
tutorial. The problem seems to be a configuration problem, but I can't
see where the problem is. and basically the configuration runs on my
local machine but not the server.
Basically If, in my web.xml I map *.jsf to facesServlet I can see
/guess.jsf but if i create a file /test/guess.jsf I get a 404 error.
by putting in a few logs I can see that while /guess.jsf is handled by
facesServlet, /test/guess.jsf is not.
if I map *.jsf to a testServlet the request is handled irrespective,
so the problem is not with tomcat.
I'm using Facelets, but have also (for testing purposes) used jsp as
the view technology, and the result is the same.
I'm using faces-1.2.4 (after trying in 1.2.3)
We are serving Tomcat 6.0.18 directly (without apache front-end) with
Java 1.6.0_07-b06 on a Gentoo 1.12.11.1 System.
locally I'm running Tomcat 6.0.18
Java 1.6.0_07-b03 on Ubuntu 8.04.1
To rule out file permissions being a problem I did a chmod -R 777 on
the directory
Config files follow at end of mail
I've spent almost 3 days tearing everything to pieces now, and can't
make any progress.
any help, suggestions, advice gratefully received
many thanks
Paul Hopton
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/WEB-INF/faces-config.xml
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.4"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee";
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"; >
<!-- Use Documents Saved as *.xhtml --> <context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.DEFAULT_SUFFIX</param-name>
<param-value>.xhtml</param-value>
</context-param>
<!-- UTESTING RESOLVER --> <context-param>
<param-name>facelets.RESOURCE_RESOLVER</param-name>
<param-value>tutorial.DefaultPaulSolver</param-value>
</context-param>
<!-- Special Debug Output for Development -->
<context-param>
<param-name>facelets.DEVELOPMENT</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</context-param>
<!-- Optional JSF-RI Parameters to Help Debug -->
<context-param>
<param-name>com.sun.faces.validateXml</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>com.sun.faces.verifyObjects</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</context-param>
<!-- Faces Servlet -->
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<!-- Faces Servlet Mapping -->
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.jsf</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
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/WEB-INF/faces-config.xml
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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE faces-config PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD
JavaServer Faces Config 1.1//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-facesconfig_1_1.dtd";>
<faces-config>
<!-- from project setup -->
<application>
<view-handler>
com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler
</view-handler> </application>
<!-- our NumberBean we created before -->
<managed-bean>
<managed-bean-name>NumberBean</managed-bean-name>
<managed-bean-class>tutorial.NumberBean</managed-bean-class>
<managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
<managed-property>
<property-name>min</property-name>
<value>1</value>
</managed-property>
<managed-property>
<property-name>max</property-name>
<value>10</value>
</managed-property>
</managed-bean>
<!-- going from guess.xhtml to response.xhtml -->
<navigation-rule>
<from-view-id>/guess.xhtml</from-view-id>
<navigation-case>
<from-outcome>success</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/response.xhtml</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
</navigation-rule>
<!-- going from response.xhtml to guess.xhtml -->
<navigation-rule>
<from-view-id>/response.xhtml</from-view-id>
<navigation-case>
<from-outcome>success</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/guess.xhtml</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
</navigation-rule>
</faces-config>
That's very weird. I don't know why you are having problems; that's a
pretty standard setup. And as you say:
<quote>basically the configuration runs on my local machine but not
the server</quote>
You say:
<quote>I map *.jsf to facesServlet I can see /guess.jsf but if i
create a file /test/guess.jsf I get a 404 error</quote>
I presume you meant to say that you create file "guess.xhtml", and can
access it as "/guess.jsf", but that when you create file
"test/guess.xhtml" you cannot access it as "/test/guess.jsf".
The fact that the problem is only on the server would suggest
file-access-permissions or some apache-httpd-frontend config issue, but
you've already excluded these possibilities.
All I could suggest is starting tomcat with debugging options, and
putting a breakpoint in the FacesServletImpl class, and the
FaceletViewHandler class.
There is a facelets config option to tell it to only process certain
urls (facelets.VIEW_MAPPINGS) but I can't see how that could be the
cause of your problem. When not set, facelets handles all requests that
the FacesServlet is mapped to. And even then, I can't think of a setting
for this property that would match top-level pages but not pages in subdirs.
Your server is linux; is your development system also linux (ie not
using a case-insensitive filesystem like NTFS)?
Regards,
Simon
Hi,
strange indeed. To answer your question I'm running a Kubuntu desktop as
dev machine. I also did a testSetup on another unix desktop this morning
and everything worked as it should. I'm not sure I can run a debugger on
a live server. Ive only ever done that locally where the problem doesn't
happen.
I replaced my test app with the myfaces-axample-simple, and the problem
persists.
A further oddity is that if i create a subdirectory faces servlet finds
it and renders it, and everything is ok. but once I restart tomcat it is
unable to find it.
I can only assume there is some kind of way-out server problem that I
can't see. I replaced the tomcat libs directory with one form a fresh
download, but that had no visible effect. I have to wait for my sysadmin
but tomorrow will try a different setup on a different machine. I'll let
you know the outcome.
Thanks for confirming that I haven't lost my mind.
cheers
PaulH
